Deep Sky Water Colours

[Froeng]

All,

I thought to try something different, and being reasonably skilled in painting watercolours, why not try to paint some deep sky objects...

I used my pencil sketches made at the telescope as a template to create the below this afternoon. The main skill one needs to have with this is - patience! It takes forever for the paint t dry. I used a dedicated black, as my previous attempts of mixing black form blue and brown did not achieve the necessary consistency. I also used a masking fluid to mark the stars before starting with the colours. I need to improve the star shapes and maybe use something else then a brush to apply them. In my eye, they are not round enough...

Anyway, I believe this be a decent first attempt:

Happy New Year everyone!

[Ratlet]

Marvelous sketches!

You could try an acrylic pen for the stars.  I use a posca pen and it works really well.  I did try a pen with a ball rather than a felt tip but it's not so much use for point like stars.

I've recently started doing the pastels on black paper thing and it's very addictive.

[RobertI]

Nicely done. Couldn’t have been  easy using watercolours. 👍

[Alan White]

That's interesting to see, 
A notable artistic step up from pencil sketches for this particular topic,
I just wish I was capable with artistic things.

[Moon-Monkey]

Very nice buddy a unique approach I like that 🙂